1. Introduction ------------------- IPv4 is history, with no need to add more policy. IPv6 is sufficiently plentiful that further policies are not needed. So let us agree to make no more IP address policies or proposals.
I think I agree with the intent of this proposal, but I don't believe that the IPv6 world is ready for zero policy, because there are still technical limitations that service providers face ... especially around sparse occupancy of the address space (e.g. reverse DNS and non-aggregatable routes) In the face of zero policy, I would reasonably be able to request multiple very small disjoint netblocks, and reject large netblocks. This wouldn't be very good. So, with the exact language of the proposal being "further policies are not needed", this protects the existing policies, and everything is fine. I think that there should be a review process referred to in this policy however, to make sure that there is a way to react when the technical landscape changes in the future. -jim